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2012 Cross-Strait Meeting on Particle Physics and Cosmology. Yi- Peng Wu Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University May 10th @ Chongquing. primordial fluctuations within tele -parallelism . Collaborate with Prof. Chao- Qiang Geng. Introduction teleparallel geometry
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2012 Cross-Strait Meeting on Particle Physics and Cosmology Yi-Peng Wu Department of Physics, National TsingHua University May 10th @ Chongquing primordial fluctuations within tele-parallelism Collaborate with Prof. Chao-QiangGeng
Introduction • teleparallel geometry • teleparallel description of General Relativity • higher-order teleparallel theory • Tele-parallel Theories for Inflation • the single field inflationary model • inflation driven by higher-order teleparallel theory Out-line
The origin: an unified field theory for gravitation and electromagnetism Nowadays: theories for gravity; geometrized by purely torsion Tele-parallel geometry (1916) gravity (1928) electromagnetism
Tele-parallel geometry curvature Riemann Minkowski
New General Relativity (Hayashi & Shirafuji 1979) Teleparallelequivelance of General Relativity (Maluf 1993) Tele-parallel description of GR → first order Lagrangian; second order field equation 16 components (Einstein equation)
The Lagrangian density of TEGR “T” differs from the Ricci scalar “R” only by a total divergence. The field equation doesn’t determinate the entire dynamic field Tele-parallel description of gr Local Lorentz symmetry Local Lorentz transformations
An ad hoc generalization of TEGR inspired from f(R) theories Local Lorentz symmetry is broken Higher-order teleparallel theory extra degrees of freedom !! (Li, Sotiriou & Barrow 2011) second order field equation covariant representation
2012 Cross-Strait Meeting on Particle Physics and Cosmology Tele-parallel theories for inflation
Models of inflation with observables in the framework of teleparallel geometry Re-exam the “equivalence” of TEGR via the minimal coupling single field inflationary model Can higher-order TEGR theories for inflation be available? Tele-parallel theories for inflation
Is the “equivalence” between single field inflationary models trivial ? • Classify the teleparallel geometry: • eA0 : (i) time-like (ii) space-like (iii) null Tele-parallel theories for inflation ADM formalism
Teleparallel geometry with time-like eA0 Fix the time and spatial reparametrizations Tele-parallel theories for inflation 3- curvature extrinsic curvature ζ and γ are first order quantities The results can be generalized to teleparallel geometry with space-like eA0 expected results!!
Driven inflation by modified teleparallel gravity opens up the study of f(T) theories Conformal transformation in f(T) theories: Tele-parallel theories for inflation (Ferraro & Fiorini 2007) still non-minimally coupled
Before calculations…. • (i) we need more assumptions to reduce the degrees of freedom for the flat FRW choice • (ii) the unitary field gauge δφ = 0 ? • (iii) the equivalence between conformal frames? Tele-parallel theories for inflation They are all Lorentz violated!!! (Faraoni & Nadeau 2007)
Linear perturbations concerning the same degrees of freedom as in GR Tele-parallel theories for inflation (Chen et. al. 2011)
If the gravitational field is protected by gauge invariance (at least in the energy scale before horizon crossing) : • Extra dofs induced by Lorentz violation are supressed • The previous parametrization is applied • A single-field theory with second-order field equations: Tele-parallel theories for inflation (Kobayashi, Yamaguchi & Yokoyama 2011) quadratic actions background eqs. tensor perturbations unchanged
The single field inflationary model for TEGR, indistinguishable from the standard inflation results, can be realized in the certain classes of teleparallel geometry. It is possible to carry out observables from higher-order TEGR inflation if the gravitational field is characterized by local gauge invariance. summary Thank you !